Ashish Prasad, Director & CEO, Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT 2.0)

Ashish Prasad joined IIJT 2.0, India’s fastest growing vocational training company, in April 2009. As Director and CEO of IIJT 2.0, Ashish leverages his rich and varied work experience in the consumer and retail sectors to keep the institute on the cutting edge of developments in vocational training.

In April 2010, Ashish played an instrumental role in executing a merger with TeamLease, India's largest staffing solutions company. The object of the partnership was innovation at the intersection of Employment and Employability that would benefit both students and employers. With this partnership and a pan-India presence of over 250 centers, IIJT 2.0 under Ashish is poised to play a key role in enhancing the employability of students and ensuring access to opportunities being thrown open by a growing economy.

Ashish was earlier the Chief Operating Officer at Madura Garments Lifestyle Retail Company Limited, an Aditya Birla Group Company, one of the youngest COOs among the group’s companies. Before that, he served as General Manager at Coca Cola India responsible for a P&L of INR 150 crores. Ashish started his career as a Regional Manager in Asian Paints India Limited, heading the Delhi, Haryana and J&K markets.

He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad with over 15 years management experience in Sales & Marketing, P&L Management, Strategy and Business Incubation across Consumer Products and Retail sectors.

Manish Sabharwal, Chairman – TeamLease Services

Manish is currently the Chairman of Teamlease Services. Previously he co-founded and was CEO of India Life Hewitt and Embrace (now Hewitt Outsourcing Asia). He is also Vice-Chairman of Icap India, a joint venture with Icap plc and India’s largest wholesale fixed income and foreign exchange firm. He graduated from Shriram College in Delhi and has an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business.

Ashok Reddy, Managing Director - TeamLease

Ashok Reddy is currently Managing Director and co-founder of TeamLease Services, India’s leading staffing solutions company. Prior to this he was co-founder of India Life Hewitt (currently Hewitt Outsourcing Asia), which was India’s first HR BPO firm and went on to become Asia’s largest. He started his career in investment banking in Mumbai. Ashok graduated from Shriram College in Delhi and has a management degree from IIM Bangalore.

Neeti Sharma - Vice President and co-founder of TeamLease Services.

Neeti currently manages Training and Government initiatives, and she was earlier heading Customer Relationship and Operations. Neeti brings in over 18 years of experience in various areas like Technical Training, Profit Center Management, International Business Development, Alliance Management, Product Development, Marketing and Customer Service, and had worked with large organizations like Mittal Group of Industries, Aptech Limited and Good Earth Organics. She holds a Masters in Economics & Statistics and a Masters in Marketing Management.